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Madeleine McCann's parents
have joined the families of other youngsters who have disappeared to
launch International Missing Children's Day

Mr and Mrs
McCann still believe their daughter could be alive

Speaking after the event at the National Theatre in
London,
Kate McCann
said all missing children deserved the publicity
given to their own daughter.

"It's vital.
Obviously our memories will be with us for ever but
we are relying on everybody around the world to help
us find our children and I do believe we all have a
responsibility to help with that," she said.

Madeleine
was three years old when she disappeared from the
Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007.

Her father, Gerry McCann,
said: "Children go missing all over the world and we
want to make sure that when these tragic events
happen the best possible chances of children being
reunited with their families is put in place."

May 25 was
designated Missing Children's Day by then-US
President Ronald Reagan following the disappearance
of six-year-old Etan Patz from New York.

Esther Rantzen spoke at launch

Missing: Katrice Lee

In the
UK an estimated 100,000 children go missing each
year, according to the Children's Society.

Most are returned
home within a week but an average of six children
each year are never found.

ChildLine
founder Esther Rantzen told the audience the plight
of missing children needed more worldwide attention.

She said: "I used
to think the most terrible grief a family could face
was the death of a child but I now realise that
having a child who is missing when everything is
unresolved is even worse and leaves them in
perpetual pain and torture."

Among the audience
were the parents of toddler Ben Needham,
who disappeared in 1991 on the Greek island of Kos,
and Natasha Lee, whose two-year-old sister Katrice
vanished from a Naafi supermarket in Paderborn,
Germany in 1981.

Ms Lee said:
"Without days like today there's a possibility that
all those missing children will be forgotten. We all
deserve our answers we all deserve to have our
children, our sisters our brothers back in our
lives."

The UK's National Missing Person's Bureau became
part of the National Policing
Improvement Agency
(NPIA) in 2008.

NPIA has announced
plans to relaunch the existing Child Rescue Alert
system nationally.

The amber alert
system is similar to one used in the US and aims to
ensure officers respond within the so-called "golden
hour" when a child goes missing.

Chief Constable
Peter Neyroud, head of NPIA, said: "We get virtually
every single (missing child) back but it's the
"virtually every single one" that worries me - a
small number of cases where kids do get abducted or
they come to harm, and that's the thing we're trying
to prevent."

Wristbands and
badges supporting the forget-me-not campaign to
bring missing children home are now available in
Tesco stores.